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"My hat!" cried Dick, as he dismounted. "Has he killed the sergeant's dog?" "He would ha' done, the darlin', if the sergeant had bin a man, in place o' the mad divil he is," replied O'Malley. For a week and more after the fight the barracks saw nothing of Sourdough, whose leg was being mended for him in the stable of a veterinary surgeon in Regina.
"I've sent one of the boys to Graham's for a wagon," said the Sergeant. "You saw the man who fired at him?" "Yes, sir," said Trooper Payne. "You knew him?" and there was a ring in the Sergeant's voice. "Yes, sir," said the trooper. "At least he was riding Winston's horse, and had on the old long coat of his."
He nodded his head in the direction we were going, and now I grasped the fact that I had before doubted namely, that firing was going on in our front. I drew the sergeant's attention to it directly, and he nodded. "That settles it at once," he said. "Here have I been telling myself it was all my fancy; but now you hear it I feel it must be fact."
I despatched the first woman-servant I could find to Rosanna's room; and I sent the boy back to say that I myself would follow him with the boot. This, I am well aware, was not the quickest way to take of obeying the directions which I had received. But I was resolved to see for myself what new mystification was going on before I trusted Rosanna's boot in the Sergeant's hands.
Go you to yours at once! Take my horse, too, and groom him." Rawdon flushed to his forehead, said not a word, came forth into the light, and then turned squarely. "My orders were from Lieutenant Lanier, sergeant, and they were distinctly to stop here." "Go you at once and do as I say," was the instant rejoinder, and the veins in the sergeant's face were swelled almost to bursting.
The sergeant's vicious phases being the offspring of impulse, and his virtuous phases of cool meditation, the latter had a modest tendency to be oftener heard of than seen.
FIRST YAGER. In my life it ne'er was a thought of mine Whether we suited each other or not, I let myself go with the rest of the lot. FIRST CUIRASSIER. I quite agree in the sergeant's opinion They'd fain have an end of our camp dominion, And trample the soldier down, that they May govern alone in their own good way. 'Tis a conspiration a plot, I say! SUTLER-WOMAN. A conspiration God help the day!
Some day he intended to have a cruising launch. Tommy had already attained that distinction. He owned a trim forty-footer, the Alert. Thompson's wanderings presently brought him to this packet. A man sat under the awning over the after deck. Thompson recognized in him the same individual upon whom the recruiting sergeant's eloquence had been wasted that morning.
The old soldier returned from his interview with General Herkimer at about the same time our newly made friend finished his recital of what had been done in and around Johnson Hall, and, observing the look of satisfaction on the sergeant's face, I understood, even before he spoke, that his mission had been, at least in a certain degree, successful.
The men answered to their names as he ran down the alphabet to G. "Gorham." "Here!" "Grayrock." "Here!" The sergeant's good memory was affected by habit: "Greene." "Here!" The response was clear, distinct, unmistakable! A sudden movement, an agitation of the entire company front, as from an electric shock, attested the startling character of the incident. The sergeant paled and paused.
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